Charles Allison with special appearances from Matt Turnure, Jeremy Carriger, Scott Courter, John Totten and sometimes Melissa Matthews, John Ringhofer and Matthew Vollmer.
Influences
In completely stream of consciousness order: My wife and Finley, Grandaddy, Flaming Lips, Giant Sand, The Church, Isidore, Richard Davies, Cardinal, Howe Gelb, Folk Implosion, Beck, Money Mark, Land of the Loops, Earlimart, Volume All-Star, Sukpatch, TMBG, The Smiths (seriously, don't even talk to me if you don't like the Smiths), Durutti Column, Bauer, Bedhead, Home, Della Volley, Camper Van Beethoven, Hoodoo Gurus, Guadalcanal Diary, Let's Active, New Order, Joy Division, Sebadoh, Ida, Lilys, P.I.L., Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk, Luke Vibert and BJ Cole, Innocence Mission, Over the Rhine, Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Sundays, Andrew Bird, Mark Hollis, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Dntl, American Analog Set, Dinosaur Jr., Robyn Hitchcock, Beta Band, The Notwist, Pinback, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Violent Femmes, Wiseguys, Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Stills, Islands, Irving, Band of Horses, The Hidden Cameras, The Exploding Hearts, Ben Kweller, Bill Ricchini, Broken Social Scene, Chameleons UK, Clem Snide, Cocteau Twins, Thompson Twins, Tommy Guerrero, Steve Caballero, Echo and the Bunnymen, Psychedelic Furs, Philistines Jr., Fetchin Bones, Flesh for Lulu, Super Furry Animals (the band and the real thing), Them Anatomies, Chopsuey'd, Parka, Eggs Have Birds, The Mommyheads, Dag Nasty, Gorillaz, Minor Threat, Descendents, All, XTC, Dukes Of Stratosphere, Andy Partridge, Aphex Twin, The Fall, The Chills, The Clean, The Bats, The Lucksmiths (seriously, don't even talk to me if you don't like the Lucksmiths), The Mutton Birds, The Lime Spiders, The Embarrassment, Big Dipper, Euphone, anything on Small Machines and Teen Beat, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Winston Jazz Routine, Death in Vegas, Butterglory, Speakers, Superchunk, Kingsbury Manx, Depeche Mode, Air, Brian Eno, Can, Heypenny, Hood, Coy, David Poe, Dixie Dirt, East River Pipe, Boards of Canada, Bright Eyes, Butterglory, Daniel Lanois, Half Handed Cloud, Elephant Micah, Vollmar, Wookieback, Magnetic Fields, Strawberry Switchblade, Menomena, Nothing Painted Blue, Klark Kent, Trio, Franklin Bruno, Massive Attack, The Streets, Tribe Called Quest, Common, Jurassic 5, Justice System, Black Sheep, Gang Starr, Guru, DJ Premier, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Luna, Martina Topley-Bird, Matt Pond PA, Bjork, Sugarcubes, Portishead, B-52's (before Keith died and Fred became unbearable), Blur, Calexico, Kings of Convenience, Kid Loco, Kingsbury Manx, Sigur Ros, Joe Strummer and the Clash (that's a seminal one and i even forgive Mick for most of B.A.D. and believe some of it was important somehow), GBV, Minutemen/Firehose (their band could be my life...thanks, aaron for that brilliant Minutemen reference), Finn Brothers, Cardigans (the band and the real thing) all the cool bands i have the fortune of producing and all good quirky pop that has its own voice and cares nothing for the commerce of popular music....Corporate rock still sucks. All my friend's bands, they all have one (realized or not). And a bunch of stuff that's not music, like....Dan Eldon (i think we were brothers from different mothers), My bikes, trad climbing, my adventures and all the crazy bitches that were down for them, boo and t-boz, esoteric hi-fi, Charles and Ray Eames, Irving Harper, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, Amy Devers and anything made out of bent plywood or stainless steel or both.
so this is like my little one man band and i make these little songs with some keyboards in them. and maybe some really cheap keyboards sometimes. and sometimes they're really new wave, cause that's where i'm coming from.
and i'm very fortunate to have some really cool dudes want to play on my records sometimes. and i'm lucky to be able to make my own records and help my friends make their records. and i care about people making their own records.
and now i have a wonderful wife that thinks even the shitty songs are good and has to listen to them way more than anyone should have to. and i just get luckier. and there's my new baby girl, Finley, and she'll suffer through the tedious bits too, cause that's what families do.
I've made four records under the name Kil Howlie Day and am currently working on a fifth. I also make records under my name, which happens to be Charles Allison. If you're really a glutton, you can step and fetch a sample here.
and.......all your base are belong to us.
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